Wild isn’t it
Edit:
Ok I misread the data but I am leaving this post. I compared Linux desktop share to Firefox all platform share
Statcounter does not say that. This post is straight up misinformation.
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Firefox (all platforms): 2.74%
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Linux (all platforms): 1.61%
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Firefox (desktop): 6.64%
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Linux (desktop): 4.45%
Firefox has 50-70% more users than Linux.
Is OP adding the Android share to Linux? That would certainly do it.
- Android (all platforms): 45.19%
Only makes sense if you know their definition of ‘Linux’ though.
You’re comparing apples and oranges…
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Firefox (all platforms): 2.74%
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Linux (all platforms): 1.61%
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Firefox (desktop): 6.64%
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Linux (desktop): 4.45%
You’ve chosen to compare Firefox’s share from all platforms to Linux’s share only on desktop. I don’t know whether this was deliberate misinformation-pushing, or an innocent brainfart/inability to parse data, but that’s not how data is compared.
Firefox has 50-70% more users than Linux, depending on the platform you use for comparison.
No matter how you cut it, Firefox is more popular. It’s more popular across all platforms as a whole, and it’s also more popular on desktop.
And 4.45% of a far smaller number is not greater than 2.74% of a much much larger number.
Right now statcounter shows:
Firefox: 2.74% Linux: 1.61%
Browsers are mostly identified by user-agent, or not? If so it isn’t surprising because people like to fake that. In the least to shut down such silly messages like “please use chrome/edge”
OS is also identified by user agent, so it’s no less vulnerable to fake agents. In any case, I’d wager the vast majority of users even on Linux use unaltered agents, though this isn’t something that can be backed up one way or another because there are no numbers for fake agents.
I’d believe it. I’ve had hundreds of Linux servers that don’t have any desktop Gui at all deployed on them.
Linux desktop users make up an absolutely tiny fraction of Linux installs.
In which country? For me the global stats and my country’s (NL) stats show otherwise.
